# bong
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /bɒŋ/
* (General American) IPA: /bɔŋ/
** (cot–caught merger) IPA: /bɑŋ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒŋ

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Noun

bong (plural bongs)
* (slang) The clang of a large bell.
** 1989, Malcolm Lynch, The kid from Angel Meadow, page 152:An argument began as to whether the trap door would open on the first bong of eight or the eighth bong of eight. A man said he'd been told on the wireless that it was the first bong of Big Ben in London which told the time, […]
* (slang) Doorbell chimes. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* (slang, Internet, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong.

##### Derived terms

* Britbong

##### Translations
#### Verb

bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)
* (slang) To pull a bell.
* (slang) To ring a doorbell.

### Etymology 2

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). Ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review.

#### Noun

bong (plural bongs)
* A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
* An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
** 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 115:Harry had a bong after his swim and then sprawled on the couch watching music videos.
* A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.

##### Synonyms

* (vessel for smoking): bucket bong, moof, water pipe
* (device for consuming beer): beer bong

##### Derived terms

* beer bong
* bongcloud
* bongful
* bong hit
* bongwater
* bucket bong
* gravity bong
* water bong
* waterfall bong

##### Translations
#### Verb

bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)
* (transitive, informal) To smoke a bong.

##### See also

* hookah
* hubbly bubbly
* narghile
* pipe
* shisha

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

bong (plural bongs)
* A very wide piton.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

bong (plural bongs)
* Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)

### Etymology 5
#### Alternative forms

* boong
* bung

#### Noun

bong (plural bongs)
* (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

## Gilbertese
### Noun

bong (plural boong)
* Nighttime.
* Dark.
* A day of 24 hours.

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɔŋ]
* Rhymes: -bɔŋ
* Hyphenation: bong

### Etymology 1

From Hokkien 墓 (bōng, “grave; tomb”). Compare Khmer ម៉ុង (mong).

#### Noun

bong
* Chinese graveyard
* (Aceh) familial graveyard

### Etymology 2

From Javanese ꦧꦺꦴꦁ (bong, “person other than a doctor who performs a circumcision”). Doublet of orang and wong.

#### Noun

bong
* traditional circumcisor (person who carries out circumcision)

### Etymology 3

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”), ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga).

#### Noun

bong
* vessel for smoking drug

### Further reading

* “bong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

bong
* Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦁ

## Kristang
### Etymology

From Portuguese bom

### Adjective

bong
* good; well

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boŋ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bong.

#### Noun

bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)
* a bong for smoking

##### Derived terms

* bøttebong
* ølbong

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bon (“good”). Cognate with Swedish bong (“betting slip”).

#### Noun

bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)
* a receipt from a totalizator

### References

* “bong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Palauan
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

bong
* drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

### References

* bong in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
* bong in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
* bong in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 27.

## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

Compare Dutch bang.

### Adjective

bong
* fearful; afraid

#### Related terms

* ääng

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bon (“voucher, ticket, coupon”). First attested in the 1930s.
Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk bong (“totalizator receipt”).

### Noun

bong c
* (restaurant) A kitchen ticket, an order ticket; a slip where waiting staff notes guests' orders, used by the kitchen or bar to prepare items, and to totaling the check.
* (gambling) A betting slip, a betting ticket; a slip on which a wager is recorded.
    Synonyms: insatskvitto, spelkvitto, spelkupong, talong, vadkvitto

#### Synonyms

* kvitto
* kontrollmärke

#### Derived terms

* bonga (“totalize order slips”, verb)
* nollbong (“handrwitten order slip”)
* travbong (“horse race betting slip”)

### References

* ↑ bong in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bong in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bong in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]

### Verb

bong
* to be peeled off, to be flaked off

#### Derived terms

* bong gân
* bong tróc

## Zou
### Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *boŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brawŋ (“yak”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bòŋ/
* Hyphenation: bong

### Noun

bong
* cow

#### Derived terms

* bongsa

### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41

## Zyphe
### Noun

bong
* thigh
* box

### Verb

bong
* to help

### References

* Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎